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#9
Originally Posted by BanditRider View Post
SeRi@iDiE,
You don't understand the concept of swap space and virtual memory.

It extends the system RAM not the filespace. Adding a swapfile will not allow you to install more applications. It will, though, allow you to have more apps running at the same time.
That's not necessarily true, if you move swap space from internal memory to external memory you'll have more space to add applications since you are no longer using the internal memory for swap.